Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-10-27
IN PRAISE OF CLEVELAND.
now HE HAS POOLED THE MUawUMPs.


Minneapolis Tribune
Brier Is. Americans, Minnepaulians, lend me
your ears,
And 81 / return them not never believe word
Of mine again.
] come not 10 1ury Cleveland bur TO praise him,
For if all TIE evil he hath done shall live after
him
He does most sorely need praise
That it may be inferred with his bones.
Here, under leave of Garland and the rest
For Garland is an honorable man;
So are they all honorable mem
Come / TO speak in CIevean1's eulogy.
HI was my friend. faithful and just TO me
although he played the devil with the Mug
wumps),
And am going TO stick TO him.
But George William Curtis says he Is a civil
service refOrmer,
And Curtis is an honorable Mugwump
who ought TO know, but he doesn't.
For hath not Cleveland brought many Demo-
Gratis TO Washington?
An unw8shed, gaping, hungry crew,
Who will from the surplus their empty maws
I'LL
While competent Republicans are discharged
Because they arc offensive partisans.
DID this seem in Cleveland dupHcity?
When the poor auywumps have cried Cleve-
hand hath wept;
Duplicity should be made of sterner stun;
Yet Curtis says this was not duphcity,
And Curtis is an honorable Mugwump.
You all did see me on the Potomac
Try to interview him once
About Eugene Higgins and his letter to office
holders
But each time did lamentably fail
And thrice l did present him with a cigar,
Which he did thrice refuse.
Because the brand was too cheap for him.
Was that duplicity?
Yet Curtis says it was not;
And Curtis wouldn't lie about it,
For sure he's an honorah e Nugwump.
do not speak to disproye what Foraker spoke,
For every word was true,
Nor would | tamper with the severity of Fair
child's rebukeS.
Because you all do know how just they were,
And how Cleveland did shiver and cover be
fore them.
But am here TO speak what | do know,
10 admit that he is old and grizLled,
That he shows the marks Of some dissipation
And sOwed his wild oats betimes;
But he Is President now, and that should be
forgotten,
For is not his wife an angelic lady,
And for such sweet mistress of the White
House
What matters it if he be a blooming chump of
the first waterY
He cannot help that he is fat and gross,
Is beah-nosed and bald-headed;
Or that his COLLAR and his hat be Of the same
dimensions,
Any more than he can convert his girth to
brains
And would you call this duplicty?
You an do know this mantle; / remember
The first time Clev Stand ever put it on
Twas ON the 4th of March in Washington.
II was fair to look upon, fun of pledges and
promises.
But now what is III
Fun of holes where pierced those pledges
through
Look! this place was made by the flag order;
And here what a rent his pension yetoes made:
Through this he stabbed his wcll-beloyed Mug
wumps,
Yet when he plucked the cursed steel away
Mark how the foolish Mugwumps followed it.
am mo- orator AS Foraker is
OR / should tell you more
That would stir your blood
AT his rank partisanship and base dupIcity,
Though all the rest do deny il;
But us on know me all a plain, blunt man,
; tell you that viii you yourselves do know,
And show you the wounds in the armor of his
honesty,
Aud bid the poor dumb mouths speak for me
And tell you of his petty deceits,
His colossal egotism,
Ills superb ignorance,
His dogmatic traits,
Aud warl-uummer manners,
with all the wiIes of the pothouse politician;
But, alas. ! have not the cloquence of For
Ugcr.
And will not unle mp your spirits,
Not put a tongue in every one of your indig
uiJe-,
But bid you gaze upon
His hulNing carcass,
And soc wherein he deserves your loves.
He was my friend, and ! can only speak in
praise of him,
For have neither wit, nor words, nor worth
To say ught that would taruish
So fair fame.
So bid me stop. gentle friends,
Or shall praise him forever.
MARK ANTHONY.